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View article: Advancing care priorities for health and quality of life among older adults in the autism and/or intellectual disabilities communities: proceedings of an international Think Tank
Advancing care priorities for health and quality of life among older adults in the autism and/or intellectual disabilities communities: proceedings of an international Think Tank Open
As the number of older autistic adults and adults with intellectual disabilities grows, expanding capacity to meet their needs is crucial. On November 23-25, 2023, a Think Tank on aging in autism and/or intellectual disabilities was conven…
View article: The Relationship between Multisensory Temporal Processing and ADHD Traits
The Relationship between Multisensory Temporal Processing and ADHD Traits Open
Temporal processing is key for successful multisensory integration, and temporal processing has been found to be affected in many neurodevelopmental conditions, such as, autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia. Research is starting to emerge…
View article: The association between socio-communicative traits associated with Autism and pupillary responses to dynamic, audiovisual emotional speech
The association between socio-communicative traits associated with Autism and pupillary responses to dynamic, audiovisual emotional speech Open
Autistic individuals commonly exhibit difficulties with emotion recognition, difficulties that contribute to social issues in Autism. Both emotion recognition and social abilities are distributed along a spectrum in Autism and the general …
View article: Correction to: Affective Prosody Perception and the Relation to Social Competence in Autistic and Typically Developing Children
Correction to: Affective Prosody Perception and the Relation to Social Competence in Autistic and Typically Developing Children Open
View article: Link between facial identity and expression abilities suggestive of origins of face impairments in autism: support for the social motivation hypothesis
Link between facial identity and expression abilities suggestive of origins of face impairments in autism: support for the social motivation hypothesis Open
Functional and neurobiological models of face perception posit separate pathways for identity and expression processing. Consistent with these models, in acquired prosopagnosia where a localized brain lesion leads to severe face recognitio…
View article: Conjunctive Visual Processing Appears Abnormal in Autism
Conjunctive Visual Processing Appears Abnormal in Autism Open
Face processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is thought to be atypical, but it is unclear whether differences in visual conjunctive processing are specific to faces. To address this, we adapted a previously established eye-tracking pa…
View article: An eye for detail: Is spatial frequency processing a source for enhanced cortical functioning in people with autism spectrum disorder?
An eye for detail: Is spatial frequency processing a source for enhanced cortical functioning in people with autism spectrum disorder? Open
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by deficits in social-communication and interaction in addition to restricted and repetitive behaviour and interests (APA, 2013). Despite these deficits, a few studie…
View article: Low- and high-level visual perception in adults with autism spectrum disorder
Low- and high-level visual perception in adults with autism spectrum disorder Open
Descriptions of atypical visual processing have been associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Pinpointing the source of altered perception has been challenging. It is possible that the divergence occurs early in visual processing. T…
View article: Association between empathic concern and face expression processing in adults with autism spectrum disorder
Association between empathic concern and face expression processing in adults with autism spectrum disorder Open
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by social-communication difficulties as well as restricted and repetitive behaviour and interests (APA, 2013). One model of ASD considers amygdala dysfunction as a ce…
View article: Face diet revealed: A study of daily exposure to faces in adult observers
Face diet revealed: A study of daily exposure to faces in adult observers Open
A variety of well-established phenomena in face perception are often explained based on the 'face diet'—the contents of daily exposure to faces. For example, the face inversion effect and the other-race effect are believed to stem from min…
View article: Efficiency and equivalent internal noise for own- and other-race face recognition suggest qualitatively similar processing
Efficiency and equivalent internal noise for own- and other-race face recognition suggest qualitatively similar processing Open
Identification of faces of a non-native race is drastically impaired compared to performance with own-race faces (Hancock & Rhodes, 2008; Meissner & Brigham, 2001). It is known that differential experience brings about this effect yet it i…
View article: Association between face-specific visual abilities and social competence in autism spectrum disorders
Association between face-specific visual abilities and social competence in autism spectrum disorders Open
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with social deficits and communication difficulties as well as stereotyped or repetitive behaviors. Neuropathology of ASD remains controversial as no isolated biomarker or dysfunction of, e.g.…
View article: Visual orientation processing in autism spectrum disorder: No sign of enhanced early cortical function
Visual orientation processing in autism spectrum disorder: No sign of enhanced early cortical function Open
It has been suggested that enhanced perceptual processing underlies some of the social difficulties associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While a variety of visual tasks have been reported in which individuals with ASD outperform…